Name: Lamees, often called QuietDragon.
Age: 16 as of the time of writing.
Gender: Female.
Types Of Writing: General, humor, and dark. I'm not very good at romance, but I enjoy trying my hand at it.
Strong Areas: Description, I think. It's not all out meaningless purple prose, but it's not boring and lifeless neither. My weakest area would probably have to be a realistic
adult romance, if that counts. I'm just not very good at it. I'm slightly better at innocent, sometimes idealistic, romances.
Type Of Characters: Any and all characters. Happy-go-lucky types, quiet "angsty" types, naive childlike types... I run a fairly large gamut.
Current Stories:
Here are all of my fanfiction and
here are my Pokemon fanfiction.
As for here on Serebii Forums...
All the King's Horses and All the King's Men...
Couldn't put Shinji back together again.
Revisiting old memories prompts Reiji to wonder where everything went wrong... and forces him to confront that maybe everything was never quite right to begin with. Genfic, no pairings.
Rating: G
By Your Side
ShinHika (Ikarishipping) 50 sentences about Shinji and Hikari. "She wanted to believe that his heart was not like his city in that it was isolated by stone, but instead by ice, so that she might melt it away."
Rating: PG for light romance
My Name is Hikari!
ShinHika (PaulxDawn) whether it's friendship or romance is up to you.
What if Hikari's obsession with ensuring that Shinji never forgets her name again turns into a sincere desire to understand him? Written from Hikari and Shinji's perspectives.
Rating: G
Sick of Fried Rice and Fortune Cookies
A humorous Team Magma fanfiction starring Tabitha (Homura) and Brody (Bannai).
The moral of this story is: be thankful for what you have and don't ever,
ever let Brody decide what's for lunch.
Rating: PG for frequent useage of mild language
The Unroutine Routine
There were many things Tabitha (Homura) was warned about prior to joining Team Magma and many things he later came to accept as a "normal" in the organization; unfortunately for him, Brody (Bannai) fell into neither catagory. Humorous genfic, no pairings.
Rating: PG for frequent useage of mild language
What They Shared
A short one-shot about a Pokemon Master to-be and a one-track-minded recluse; what was and what never had the chance to be. One-sided Shirona (Cynthia) x Akagi (Cyrus).
Rating: G, nothing objectionable.
Future Stories: Nothing in mind at the moment.
Writing Tips:
Read. I cannot stress this enough. Read as much as you can and read anything you can get your hands on; not just fanfiction, but books, newspaper articles,
everything.
It's fine if you have certain genres you prefer, but never be afraid to try out a new one. You might be surprised!
Learn. Do not just let your eyes pass over the words, learn from the writer's style. Do not steal it or try to emulate it exactly, but think of your favorite descriptions and lines from what you've read and try to figure out
why you like them so much. Try writing similar lines about different subjects.
Remember that your character is not you and you are not your character, unless this is a self-insert (which are very hard to pull off, so I would suggest avoiding them if you're prone to Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus). I find many fanfiction authors can almost entirely disassociate their character from themselves, but still give them an identical musical taste. it's especially bad if they're writing an established canon character and giving them their completely unbefitting musical tastes. Sure, a character can surprise us, but there are limits to even suspension of belief.
Cheery bubbly pink Hikari is not going to dye her hair black with purple highlights, get piercings, and rock out to heavy metal unless this is meant to be comical or takes place in an alternate universe.
I have problems with UVs that completely change a character's personality, in general though. If the character does not exist int he same world as in canon, nor does he/she act the same way... it ceases to be the same character. You might as well call it what it is: original fiction or fanfiction for a different universe entirely.)
Do not ignore constructive criticism. Take every negative comment about your work and try to understand it and learn from it, rather than immediately chuck it in the trash to go wallow in your misery or rage about it in your livejournal. Never attack the reviewer.
I know this can be hard for those with low self-esteem, but you should be touched that they're trying to help you, even if it sounds like they're taking this creative work of yours which you've invested so much into that you feel as if it's a part of you and
tearing into it and revealing all that is wrong with it (even a monkey is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother, remember that), but what they really want to do is help you improve.
Unless, of course, it's outright flaming such as "lol dis sux n u fail" without giving so much as a HINT as to what is so bad about your story. Those you can safely disregard. Replying to the petty flamer is exactly what he or she wants. Simply ignore him or her.
Those are my tips.